Biodiversité

Ce bilan annuel du suivi du Lynx boréal en France repose sur l'analyse de près de 3000 indices collectées par le réseau entre 2016 et 2020. Il révèle une augmentation de 14% de la superficie de présence. Le noyau principal se situe dans le massif du Jura, la présence du Lynx est plus discrète dans les Alpes et très fragile dans les Vosges.

The ongoing recovery of terrestrial large carnivores in North America and Europe is accompanied by intense controversy. On the one hand, reestablishment of large carnivores entails a recovery of their most important ecological role, predation. On the other hand, societies are struggling to relearn how to live with apex predators that kill livestock, compete for game species, and occasionally injure or kill people. Those responsible for managing these species and mitigating conflict often lack fundamental information due to a long-standing challenge in ecology: How do we draw robust population-level inferences for elusive animals spread over immense areas? Here we showcase the application of an effective tool for spatially explicit tracking and forecasting of wildlife population dynamics at scales that are relevant to management and conservation.